2013 Ferrari F138

[Hampus Andersson]

not so pretty nose and the livery looks a bit messy, but i´m sure it will look better in motion.

 

[adrian88]

not so pretty nose and the livery looks a bit messy, but i´m sure it will look better in motion.

The nose does look way better without the step, I know it is still there covered by a vanity plate but cosmetically wise anything is better then the platypus.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

I was thinking more about that bit below the tip of the nose. Not sure what happened there.

 

[Dmitry Zaharov]

The most exciting part of this car is yellow paint on tyres.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Did not even see this, pretty cool.

 

[j288gto]

Ferrari launched this morning. Looks awesome http://www.ferrari.com/English/Formula1/Pages/Home.aspx

You will notice they have made the nose look pretty again.

 

[Markus Neumann]

I like it in terms of looks:
The rear wing is red again
The FW finally has some black in it again
Nose looks interesting and so does the RW

Dmitry Zaharov
Do you ever do anything but complain? In the Lotus launch thread, you didn't like the looks, with McLaren it was the drivers, now the car is not exciting enough...

 

[Ketnix]

At first I didn't quite like how the front wing and nose structure is connected, but from this angle and looking at it more I quite like it now. The rear wing fins are quite interesting, pretty tight in the rear. Paint job is quite nice, some extra black and white fits well.

 

[Dmitry Zaharov]

Dmitry Zaharov
Do you ever do anything but complain? In the Lotus launch thread, you didn't like the looks, with McLaren it was the drivers, now the car is not exciting enough...

Yeah I do, but not quite often.

 

[the_sigman]

Beautiful, sexy!

 

[ufunacaoenn]

Now this is interesting, the rear wing is a bit taller then last years car while the front wing is a bit lower (by a couple of millimeters) then last years car.

 

[Diego Lopez]

Yeah I do, but not quite often.

thats what the forums are for, complain and praise.


back to the car, thats gotta be the worse red used since 2009, should of kept it as last year.

I like however how the red covers most of the front wing, now maybe they could add the classic black to the very front of the wing.

interesting read wing and exhaust , this time they used Toyotas wind tunnel so we'll see if the "wind tunnel" is to yet be blamed, again.

 

[adrian88]

Ketnix, thank you for the comparison photo. It truly is very similar to last years car, the packaging at the back looks tighter similar to last years Williams.
Hampus, nice find, those slots look kind of strange, curious on what they achieve.

 

[Metalfreaky]

Nice car. Sill not beauty queen but far better than last year. I hope I can say the same thing after the first couple of races.

I expected something more aggressive on the exhaust. More like the "undercut"-solution from RB that also feeds the starter hole, but we'll probably see some diffrent solutions during testing. I'm curious.

Im guessing that all big teams will have swome kind of passive DRS as it should be a quite big advantage?

 

[Ketnix]

You'd like to think all the teams would work for that passive DRS, but im hearing thats its really quite a difficult thing to get right. Mercedes and Lotus worked on it for more than half of the season and never fielded it, siting plenty of issues. Its a tricky system to work because you can't have any moving parts, so your working with some sort of passive fluid switch, thus its hard to create that fine line between the system being neutral then having it stalling.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

adrian88

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Small comparo of Mcl/Fer exhaust.

Red Bull strakes,

and some pics,

 

[Diego Lopez]

i love the front part of the car, just how the nose is, wants to kiss it...lol.

this car has shown more than the 2012 cars of last year.

 

[zlep]

For me, this is the best looking F1 car since years. Awesome. I really like it.

 

[Ketnix]

Rear of the car is looking quite good. Added a monkey seat since launch, plenty of flo vis testing going on at the moment.